12 Year Old Bullrider killed by bull at rodeo Colorado

[RamboLiberal]

Twelve-year-old Richard Wayde Hamar of Yuma was killed in a bull-riding competition Sunday morning at the Little Britches Rodeo at the Boulder County Fairground in Longmont.

Hamar was wearing a helmet and padded vest, but after he was thrown, the bull stepped on his stomach, officials said.

His parents were in attendance at the two-day rodeo for youths 8 to 18 years old.

"He held on for a few seconds," Katy Sinclair, who witnessed the accident, told the Daily Camera. "When he hit the ground, the bull just ran him over. I could see the bull's legs hit his chest.

"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen," she said. "It was horrible."

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12710857

[sharp_stick]

1. 12 year old bull rider?

Are they really letting 12 year old's ride bulls now? When I was a kid we were allowed to ride steers at about 14 but you couldn't get up on a bull until you were at least 18 and had ridden quite a few steers.

Not that steers aren't dangerous too, after my first, and last, ride when I was 14 I had 2 broken bones in my left wrist and was in a cast for 10 weeks.

[RamboLiberal]

2. They said it wasn't a full size bull?

Dimond said Hamar wasn't riding a full-grown, 2,000-pound bull. He said there are injuries at the fairgrounds from time to time, but he couldn't remember a child being stepped on by a bull before.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19885701/detail.html

[sharp_stick]

3. They're still nasty

one of the reasons they had kids riding steers instead was that they weren't as mean. When a steer tossed you off his back he just went back to the pens, a bull will still see you as a threat and can turn around on you.

It might be that this one just stepped on the poor kid as he was continuing to buck. Still, being on the back of one of these things is a dangerous place. Maybe this guy has never seen a child get stepped on but I've seen a lot of adults get stepped on.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Oh yeah I realize a bull is more likely to turn on rider and try

to gore or trample. Even a young bull. I'm curious if they really allowed these kids to ride bulls or if news media got story a bit wrong. Yeah it could've been an accident in that the bull came down on him out of the buck. I've seen people trampled by a tame saddle horse when thrown and that is nasty.

Clue the contestants might've been outclassed by the "bulls" is that only 2 out of 15 managed to ride the alloted time.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Oh, so he was only trampled by a 900 lb steer - that's OK then. nt

edit or accuracy

[LeftinOH]

4. Its not an amusement park ride -its a large, heavy animal reacting to something on it's back-

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. and the strap around its testicles

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Is that used to make the bull very pissed off?

So that it bucks more?

[RamboLiberal]

12. It's claimed it's really not around the testicles

But the flank strap or bucking strap is there to act as an irritant to the bull (or bucking horse) to make them buck & kick higher. BTW, some bucking horses are mares(females) or geldings(neutered males).

[Thothmes]

17. It it was a steer, they were already gone.

[obliviously]

20. Oh those nasty little details

get in the way don't they?

[PVnRT]

5. ...

[frogmarch]

10. The Little Britches Rodeo is the same as

the JonBenet-type beauty pageants are for little girls. Both are ridiculous.

How very sad about 12-year-old Richard Hamar being killed by a bull. What the hell are the parents of these kids thinking?

[Vidar]

14. Excellent point.

[Happyhippychick]

11. Dear God what a tragedy.

[seabeyond]

13. i am sorry for this boy. i am sorry for his family. this is a sport that some enjoy. there are

lots of sports that kids do, where injury or death can occur. it is not likely death would incur with a child doing this sport any more than many other sports. hence, not seeing a continual stream of deaths with a headline like this one.

i know there are going to be people jumping on razzing about the death.

it is what it is....

horse riding, skiing, motor cross

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Riding bicycles, swimming,

falling from a gym set, falling while skateboarding; many, many ways for kids, and adults, to die while having fun.

[RagAss]

16. I hear you...it is a tragedy...but summer football practice is almost here...

...and you know what that means.

[Skittles]

18. tormenting bulls not a good idea

[fujiyama]

21. I was thinking the same thing

How arrogant for humans to believe they can fuck with such wild animals.

Sad to hear a kid got killed. But these are some stupid parents.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

26. Wild animal??? it was a bull not a buffalo!

[Maru Kitteh]

19. And so we have yet one more reason why this form of animal torture should be banned

[Unrepentant Fenian]

27. Reality check...

You'll be happy to know that the bull in the story was fine, both physically & mentally. You may be saddened to know that had it not been for the rodeo, that bull would have been in a cat food can a long time ago. As for the kid,would it been better if he died in a sailing accident or on an AirBus flight from Brazil to Paris?

[Horse with no Name]

22. I will never understand why parents let their kids do these things

I rode horses when I was a kid without any parental supervision, that is, until I had one fall over on the top of me and crush my rib cage. Left me lying out in the middle of a field until someone could get help and haul me 45 miles to the nearest hospital.
My parents let us do all kinds of dangerous stuff, and luckily, we survived it. There are many that don't.
Poor poor child. I hope the parents figure out a way to find peace with their decisions.

[MazeRat7]

23. As someone who has actually ridden bulls... this is not something for kids...

I'm sorry but the parents should have known better. Doesn't matter the size of the animal or if it has been castrated. They are strong, they are quick, and they are psycho. The only place for kids in a rodeo is with the goats or greased pigs.

Peace,
MZr7

[davepc]

24. The only bull i've ridden is a hydraulic mechanical. At least i knew it wouldn't trample me

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. Who here thinks that a 12 year old understands the permanence of death?

I knew.

[comtec]

28. I certainly did, at that age, and jr had no business riding that bull

honestly 12?! his stronger muscles haven't even come in.
Hell his first one probably hasn't even dropped!
that poor boy.
Died doing what he enjoyed however. and it was probably quick.
I suppose some of us won't die in circumstances.
still... fucking waste!